Blow Quote by Bernard-Joseph Saurin

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

— Samuel Johnson

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

— Isaac Barrow

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

— Josh Billings

Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its…

— Washington Gladden

Slander is poison to the soul.

— David O. McKay

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Slander is the solace of malignity.

— Joseph Joubert

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

— Mazie Hirono

While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

— Bernard of Clairvaux